Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 16, 2010
• Invested on: September 16, 2011

Jennifer Simons has demonstrated a strong lifetime commitment to peace and disarmament as an activist and philanthropist. Founder and president of The Simons Foundation, which supports a wide range of disarmament and peace efforts, she is also the co-founder and a former director of the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research at the University of British Columbia. She has given her time to organizations that promote peace at the local, national and international levels, and has helped to steer Simon Fraser University and the University of Northern British Columbia through her service on their respective boards of governors.